Rush Limbaugh weighed in on DC vouchers yesterday:
“So all hell was raised over canceling the DC voucher program ’cause it worked. So Obama’s done a flip-flop and he’s gonna let every kid in it, going to keep the program open ’til every kid graduates. Then he’s going to shut it down, to which I have a question. Either vouchers work or they don’t. Either they work or they don’t. Obama doesn’t believe in them. He wants to shut the voucher program down. He’s said so. He doesn’t believe in the voucher program. So why would he continue this program if it’s a bad thing? He believes it’s a bad thing. He says he believes it’s a bad thing. If it’s a bad thing, if it doesn’t serve a purpose, in his view, he ought to cancel it, he should stick with the cancellation because he doesn’t think this is a good program. Period. He’s not concerned with the disruption to the kids here. I’ll tell you what this is about. (interruption) What do you think it’s about? Partially, public relations propaganda. But let’s be specific because everything with Obama is a PR, propaganda.”
The incoherence of letting students continue in a program that you claim is harmful was exactly the point of my post yesterday. That Rush. Always fawning over everything I write and saying “ditto, ditto, ditto.”
But wait, there’s more. Rush then started to channel Kanye West:
“What Barack Obama is worried about is that the black population will discover he really doesn’t care about them. And that was starting to happen…. What Obama has to do here is to make sure that the black population does not figure out that he really doesn’t care about them, that they’re just pawns.”
And Rush topped it off with:
“You have to ask yourself this question. How in the world have we gotten to the point where a program that does not only a great job of educating children, but a better job of educating children, how have we gotten to the point where a program that does a better job of educating black children with less money than public schools is considered controversial? How in the hell have we gotten there? And how in the hell have we gotten to the point where a school that educates poor black kids better and cheaper, that that poses a threat to somebody and the school has to be shut down? How in the world have we gotten to this point? These kids going to these voucher schools have a great chance, at least a greater chance to succeed.”
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Sometimes watching politics unfold is like watching a National Geographic nature documentary.
The poor, ignorant and, despite decades of effusive baying by the left – supposedly on their behalf – , largely ignored urban blacks now have an issue about which their interests coalesce without those interests being arguably self-serving. That community of interest is driving the development of a movement of political influence and it’s set against the interests of those who benefit from the status quo.
Which will triumph? The new specie of political animal full of the vigor of newly-discovered influence and a passion that might, tantalizingly, be satisfied? Or will the old, established political specie, powerful, experienced, confident but with vulnerabilities that are only now starting to reveal their full scope, carry the day? Tune in next week to see who prevails!
So, has the NEA come to realize that charters represent a much greater danger to the rule of the educational dinosaur then vouchers or are they still transfixed by the terrifying spectacle of parents being put in charge of their children’s education via the possession of a mere scrap of paper in their grubby, unsophisticated hands? On the face of it, it’s still the latter, vouchers, that haunts the nightmares of the NEA hierarchy.
Good.
The longer it takes the NEA to realize the much greater threat represented by charters the poorer position they’ll be in to do anything about charters when the realization finally hits.